re: Tips for getting jacked you wish you would’ve known sooner

I highly recommend setting up a consultation with her to discuss what your expectations should be. Note that it's not cheap, since she doesn't fully participate in the insurance model. She was able to file one of my deficiencies as a diagnosis, but insurance still didn't cover a whole lot. That's a good thing in my mind because she's not bound by what insurance will allow.

She ordered a BUNCH of bloodwork for me and mapped me out on paper with those results. She showed me what deficiencies I had, what issues those were causing, what signs and symptoms they were manifesting as, and what chronic issues they could lead to. It was crazy to see her explain everything I was feeling and experiencing that I never told her about.

To give you an idea of how she operates, I asked her about this methylation test that everyone's talking about, because she didn't have it on the list she ordered. She told me that all of the blood work she ordered would tell her what she needed to know, and the methylation test, among other things, would be ordered if these tests pointed to that. It ended up not pointing to that and she showed me exactly why in my test results.

I drink a lot of water, was listening to Gary Brecka and Andrew Huberman at the time, and was taking a few supplements based on what they were recommending. I was always getting sick with lack of sleep due to young kids and work stress. She said by the looks of my bloodwork I'm "running from the lion" the minute my eyes open in the morning to when I go to sleep at night.

She had me supplement some vitamins and minerals to make up the deficiencies, gave me some breathing techniques like box breathing, and told me to keep doing what I was doing diet-wise, which was removing seed oils and processed carbs. She gave me a bunch of simple tips that work.

In my opinion she should be the person covered by insurance, not the other way around.